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plus, a lesson for senator scott brown. and sex trafficking here at home. a crisis of modern day slavery. but first, the candidates will finally debate and a lot of us just don't care. >>> good morning. i'm melissa harris-perry. ever notice the holidays are getting earlier and earlier? every year those christmas tree ornaments and santa hats get put on display just a week or two earlier. incrementally pushing up the date of when it's acceptable to think about candy canes and reindeer. apparently christmas has arrived this year. we haven't trick-or-treated or given thanks yet. break out the dreidel or light the kwanzaa. or get the tree up. taking a page from the lobby christmas tree's book, the political parties have made sure we don't forget to vote. on any day in the month preceding election day, that is. because you can vote early. but not often. that's right. it's election day. 37 days shy of the actual election day and people in iowa are already casting their votes and across 30 states absentee ballots are hitting mailboxes. it's not about winning more
plus, a lesson for senator scott brown. and sex trafficking here at home. a crisis of modern day slavery. but first, the candidates will finally debate and a lot of us just don't care. >>> good morning. i'm melissa harris-perry. ever notice the holidays are getting earlier and earlier? every year those christmas tree ornaments and santa hats get put on display just a week or two earlier. incrementally pushing up the date of when it's acceptable to think about candy canes and reindeer....
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they became brown v. board of education, the case that established in 1954 that separate is inherently unequal. three years later, nine teenagers in little rock, arkansas put that decision to the test. the little rock nine carried the courage of the court's conviction on their should ers when they walked through the doors of central high. in 1960, four students from north carolina a.n.t. stood up to inequality when they sat down at a woolworth counter in greensboro. in 1963, high school students and college students in birmingham, alabama, put their bodies in the line of fire during the children's crusade. the willingness to bear the brunt of police clubs, dog attacks and fire hoses paved the way for federal civil rights legislation. in 1970, students at kent state university took fire of national guardsmen who sprayed more than 60 bullets of students protesting the vietnam war. they were part of the movement that preshd the u.s. to end its intervention in vietnam. students on university campuses in the 1
they became brown v. board of education, the case that established in 1954 that separate is inherently unequal. three years later, nine teenagers in little rock, arkansas put that decision to the test. the little rock nine carried the courage of the court's conviction on their should ers when they walked through the doors of central high. in 1960, four students from north carolina a.n.t. stood up to inequality when they sat down at a woolworth counter in greensboro. in 1963, high school...
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. >> with me is judith brown, dorian warren, and mickey edwards. did i get that about right, judith? >> yeah, you hit it on the head. you told the story. we're we are in pennsylvania. it will be in the supreme court next week, and we know no evidence of voter fraud, we know who it hits. one group that also it hits are veterans who don't have expiration dates on their ids. >> why wouldn't veterans have ids, but it's because they don't have expiration dates. >> explain that, i want to be clear, i think a lot of viewers may realize you don't just have to have something that shows you you are, but you have to have rules about it. >> that's right, they were crafted for partisan gain by politicians who want to manipulate the laws. they crafted them so they hit the people that they want to suppress the votes of. so the way that most of these laws have been crafted is they're state issues photo id with a current address, no expiration date, so in pennsylvania, over 80% of the colleges and universities did not have an expiration date on their ids, so they'r
. >> with me is judith brown, dorian warren, and mickey edwards. did i get that about right, judith? >> yeah, you hit it on the head. you told the story. we're we are in pennsylvania. it will be in the supreme court next week, and we know no evidence of voter fraud, we know who it hits. one group that also it hits are veterans who don't have expiration dates on their ids. >> why wouldn't veterans have ids, but it's because they don't have expiration dates. >> explain...
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the real refs got a standing ovation before thursday night's browns/ravens game in baltimore. here is what makes that scene hilarious. ask any sports fan, player or coach, the least popular man or woman on the field is the one holding the wlislhistle. people hate referees. that is partly as a function. despite the striped uniforms, they are meant to be invisible. we only notice them when they mess up or as it seems when they are gone and not there doing their jobs as professionals. allow me a metaphor of my own. to me, this is part of the labor image we all need to see in america as a whole. these individual maligned individuals at the bottom of the pay scale and the bottom of the status scale within the game of football are the key to its fairness and legitimacy. people will still watch the nfl and deal with and live in america even if it manages to crush unions. the lesson i take away is the absence of real professionals really makes a difference. thank you, 47%. now, forget the chicago teachers' strike, folks. it seems all it took for politicians to pay attention to labor i
the real refs got a standing ovation before thursday night's browns/ravens game in baltimore. here is what makes that scene hilarious. ask any sports fan, player or coach, the least popular man or woman on the field is the one holding the wlislhistle. people hate referees. that is partly as a function. despite the striped uniforms, they are meant to be invisible. we only notice them when they mess up or as it seems when they are gone and not there doing their jobs as professionals. allow me a...
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representing one of the organizations that brought the suit, judith ann brown. >> hi, melissa. i feel like i will see you a lot. >> they just won't stop, will they? >> bring us up-to-date on what's going on in pennsylvania. >> we have one of the most restrictive voter i.d. laws that requires you have a current photo i.d. issued by the department of motor vehicle. it has to have an expiration date and it has to have your current address. we went into court and unfortunately lost in the lower court challenging that, because we know voting is a fundamental right. it is the blood line of our democracy. we knew that over 1 million people did not have the required i.d. in pennsylvania. so we lost unfortunately in the lower court. here we are before the supreme court. pennsylvania is a place where democracy is on trial and we will have to see and get a decision in the next week or so about this law. >> let me ask you something about how this law ends up showing up in pennsylvania. i want to bring in alec. we talked a little about about this previously. alec is the organization that do
representing one of the organizations that brought the suit, judith ann brown. >> hi, melissa. i feel like i will see you a lot. >> they just won't stop, will they? >> bring us up-to-date on what's going on in pennsylvania. >> we have one of the most restrictive voter i.d. laws that requires you have a current photo i.d. issued by the department of motor vehicle. it has to have an expiration date and it has to have your current address. we went into court and...
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judith browne-dianis of the advancement project. dorian warren and valerie core, director of groundswell at auburn seminary. what we heard there is, you know, the presidential candidate, mitt romney saying, there are aspects of obama care that i would keep. there is part of me that wants to cheer that, and say, okay, you passed something very similar in massachusetts is this an example of sort of a bipartisan recognition? or is the virginery fact that h against the thing that he was originally for an indication of how bad partisanship has become? >> i think it's actually two things. one, an attempt to appeal to moderate and swing voters. second being it's an attempt to take away issues from obama as we get closer to debates. he is very vulnerable, that obama care was romney care first. how can he say he wants to repeal something that he's already implemented as on governor of massachusetts. it's both of those. actually a smart of strategy. take away the issue that we're most vulnerable on and appeal to swing voters. >> in our desire
judith browne-dianis of the advancement project. dorian warren and valerie core, director of groundswell at auburn seminary. what we heard there is, you know, the presidential candidate, mitt romney saying, there are aspects of obama care that i would keep. there is part of me that wants to cheer that, and say, okay, you passed something very similar in massachusetts is this an example of sort of a bipartisan recognition? or is the virginery fact that h against the thing that he was originally...
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>> is there a place we can see black/brown coalitions, where we ask citizen questions and the right to vote? the big tent before us. is this a space where it can come together? >> these are two community, the value of citizenship is ab experience of denial and struggle to obtain them. these two community can make common cause. the question, how to articulate in ways that would resonate with both community. >> i like the point that voters are supposed to choosy elected offici officials, not elected officials choosing voters. thank you. i'm sure i'll see you ladies at another point during the long election cycle. the mayor will stick around with us a little longer, up next, we'll shift gears. i want too ask if there is a doctor in the house? increasingly, the answer is no. what do we do when something that's hard to paint, really wants to be painted? what do weak out new behr ultra with stain-blocker from the home depot... ...the best selling paint and primer in one that now eliminates stains. so it paints over stained surfaces, scuffed surfaces, just about any surface. what do you say w
>> is there a place we can see black/brown coalitions, where we ask citizen questions and the right to vote? the big tent before us. is this a space where it can come together? >> these are two community, the value of citizenship is ab experience of denial and struggle to obtain them. these two community can make common cause. the question, how to articulate in ways that would resonate with both community. >> i like the point that voters are supposed to choosy elected offici...